The former chief financial officer of American Realty Capital Partners Inc. was sentenced Nov. 8 to 18 months in prison for misleading investors by falsely inflating a key measure of the company’s performance.
Brian Block, of Hatfield, Pa., was also ordered to pay a $100,000 fine. He had faced as long as 20 years in prison on the most serious charges (United States v. Block, S.D.N.Y., 16-cr-595, sentencing 11/8/17).
A jury convicted Block in June of six counts including securities fraud and conspiracy following an almost three-week-long trial that featured testimony from two of his former colleagues, including ...
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